Tuesday, November 4, 2008

tryst

oh, i yearn to spend time with my Beloved,the One who loves meinfinitely,unconditionally!

spending time listening to His voiceis my delight,and i love to think about the things He saysall through the dayand even in the night.His words and wisdom return to mein my conversations with other people.

i have a confession.i have not always found joyin the time that i spentwith the Lover of my soul.

i used to drag myself to spend time with Him,rudely thinking about other subjects,more interesting to me(i now say to my shame)than the words He spoke to my heart.

how the change happened i am not quite certain.i saw the dearth of delight,the preoccupation with things of no value.i asked Him to help me change.

In His patient love,He gave and gave and gave,and i found the hardness of my heart softenlike the parched groundin a long but gentle rain.the seed of His wisdom and His graciousnesspenetrated the surface,put down roots,and bore fruit.

i am my beloved's

rejoicing in children's children

God takes our actions seriously. He has big plans, but He doesn’t HAVE to use us to accomplish them. He wants to offer us that joy, but we can skip out on it by choosing our own sin over His blessing. And the sad thing is, we might never know what He wanted to give us. What’s sadder is that maybe we will. --Benjamin Power